Corrupt Histories (Studies in Comparative History)

by Emmanuel Kreike (Editor), William Chester Jordan (Editor)

Corruption is a preoccupation of governments and societies across place and time, from the 18th-19th Century British, Chinese, and Iberian empires to 20th Century Nazi Germany, Russia, the United States, and India. This study offers three different perspectives on corruption. The first chapters highlight corrupt practices, taking as a point of departure a technocratic definition of corruption. The second part of the book views corruption through the lens of discourses of corruption, revealing that accusations of corruption have been employed as tools, often in the context of contestations of power. The essays in the third part of the book treat corruption as a process, taking into account its causes and effects and their impact on society, economics, and politics. Jeremy Adelman, Virginie Coulloudon, William Doyle, Diego Gambetta, Norman J. W. Goda, Robert Gregg, Michael Johnston, William Chester Jordan, Emmanuel Kreike, Vinod Pavarala, Dilip Simeon, Pierre-Etienne Will, David Witwer, Philip Woodfine William Chester Jordan is Professor of History at Princeton University; Emmanuel Kreike is Assistant Professor of African History and Director of the African Studies Program at Princeton University

Table of Contents

Introduction - Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester An Analytical Map - Diego GambettaOfficials and Money in Late Imperial State Finances, Private Expectations, and the Problem of Corruption in a Changing EnvironmentChanging Environment - Will Pierre-EtienneChanging Notions of Public Corruption, c. 1770-c. 1850 - William DoyleBlack Hitler's Bribery of His Senior Officers During World War II - Norman GodaCorruption and Democratic Consolidation - Michael JohnstonTempters or Tempted? The Rhetoric and Practice of Corruption in Walpolean Politics - Philip WoodfineThe Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union during the 1930s - David WitwerRussia Twenty Years of Anti-corruption Campaigns - Virginie CoulloudonCultures of Corruption and the Corruption of The East India Company and the Hastings Impeachment - Vinod PavaralaUneasy Police, Corruption, and Anxiety in Bombay, London, and New York City - Robert GreggThe Currency of An Essay on Informal Accululation in Colonial India - Dilip SimeonCommerce and Corruption in the Late Spanish and Portuguese Empires - Jeremy Adelman

498 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2004

Reviews

[Andrew Otis · Rating 5 out of 5]

useful theoretical framework to view corruption in many contexts